Siri, Who Am I?
by Sam Tschida
Mia might look like a Millennial but she was born yesterday. Emerging from a coma with short-term amnesia after an accident, Mia can't remember her own name until the Siri assistant on her iPhone provides it. Based on her cool hairstyle (undercut with glamorous waves), dress (Prada), and signature lipstick (Chanel), she senses she's wealthy, but the only way to know for sure is to retrace her steps once she leaves the hospital. Using Instagram and Uber, she arrives at the pink duplex she calls home in posts but finds Max, a cute, off-duty postdoc supplementing his income with a house-sitting gig. He tells her the house belongs to JP, a billionaire with a chocolate empire. A few texts later, JP confirms her wildest dreams: they're in love, Mia is living the good life, and he'll be back that weekend.
But as Mia and Max work backward through her Instagram and across Los Angeles to learn more about her, they discover a surprising truth behind her perfect Instagram feed, and evidence that her head wound was no accident. Who was Mia before she woke up in that hospital? And is it too late for her to rewrite her story?*
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Book Review by Zoe Bastone
Reading this book as the world slowly emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic proved to be an interesting choice. I think that a lot of us are asking questions like “who was I before the pandemic?” and “how does this pandemic experience change that identity?” In a lot of ways, our protagonist, Mia Wallace is asking those same questions as she works to recoup her identity and memory after waking up in the hospital with amnesia.
Throughout the book, you follow Mia as she looks for clues regarding the person she was prior to the amnesia. You may think that after everything that I have said about this book thus far that this book must be super serious. I was surprised by the amount of humor that this book entails.
If you are looking for a book that will keep you on your toes, make you smile, and challenge you, I highly recommend Tschida’s Siri, Who Am I?
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